“..a heartbreaking solo with a bow and an old-fashioned handsaw becomes one of the most moving musical moments in memory.”
LA Times

“..the most resonant scene is the one…(with)…a musical saw. The eerily beautiful sounds cascade and twist though the air, sounding like the precise halfway point between the music of the spheres and a human sob.”
The Boston Globe

“In one of Mr. Mapother’s surprising turns, he plays a soul-filling solo on a musical saw.”Wall Street Journal
“The movie includes a couple of unforgettable scenes. One takes place in a college classroom, where John plays a saw whose eerie spiritual sound evokes a Gregorian chant.”Bloomberg News

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Buy the MP3! “Another Earth” from the film “Another Earth”

A piece of music by Scott Munson made it into the soundtrack of Another Earth, one of the hottest films at the Sundance Film Festival this year. The film received a standing ovation and was picked up by Fox Searchlight Pictures for International distribution. In addition ‘Another Earth’ received the Sloan Prize as well as winning a Special Jury Prize for the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance.

[…] plays a minimalist piece on musical saw for Rhoda, a little ode to human smallness? the cosmos? which sounds exactly like a lonely, wavering female voice singing while floating around in a spacesh…. It was terribly haunting. And also another scene in which Rhoda tells Burroughs the story of a […]

Arresting creative sound that captures the essence of John’s deepest angst, which Rhoda’s contrite spirit was already deeply in tuned to. I marvel at how a musical artist can reach deep down & find the sound that captures what the writer intended for his character to communicate.